Robin Smidsr?d <[email protected]> wrote: > >On 11.06.2012 19:40, Klaus Espenlaub wrote: >> So if iPXE wants to replace both Etherboot (which is also broken in this >> respect) and Intel PXE in VirtualBox this apparently otherwise unused >> feature will have to be resurrected. We're aware that this means kicking >> out any feature which isn't vital, and that's not a concern since in the >> worst case the people who need a more feature rich iPXE build can >> replace the ROM image, or use the simple one to bootstrap a build over >> the network which has everything enabled. > >I was actually trying to replace the ROM image in VirtualBox (Windows 7 >x64 host), but I've not been successful with the paravirtualized or >intel-emulated adapters. Only the AMD pcnet network adapter seems to >work with an iPXE ROM. That is kinda boring, since I want an emulated >gigabit adapter, and not just 100Mbit.
I got iPXE to work with VBox's virtio driver. Used a git fetch from 24 January, 2012; followed the instructions on iPXE's website; used a console.h file that has: #undef CONSOLE_SERIAL and a general.h file that has: /* Virtualbox BIOS needs this for iPXE to work correctly */ #define NONPNP_HOOK_INT19 /* Not using PXE menus since they are limited to TFTP-only */ #undef PXE_MENU /* Dump Fibre Channel and Inifiniband functionality */ #undef FCMGMT_CMD #undef NET_PROTO_FCOE #undef SANBOOT_PROTO_FCP #undef SANBOOT_PROTO_IB_SRB /* No need for SAN boot functionality */ /* Virtualbox has its own iSCSI initiator */ #undef SANBOOT_PCBIOS #undef SANBOOT_PROTO_ISCSI #undef SANBOOT_PROTO_AOE /* Unwanted download protocols */ #undef DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTPS #undef DOWNLOAD_PROTO_FTP #undef DOWNLOAD_PROTO_TFTM #undef DOWNLOAD_PROTO_SLAM /* Unwanted image type support */ #undef IMAGE_MULTIBOOT #undef IMAGE_COMBOOT #undef IMAGE_AOUT #undef IMAGE_WINCE and built for virtio-net. Obviously I had to cut out quite a bit of stuff to get the ROM size down to where Virtualbox would load it.... Regards,
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